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-Chris > On Aug 14, 2017, at 1:55 PM, Jay Abbott via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > I think that "we don't have time to implement this time-saving > project-accelerating quality-improving thing" is widely recognised as an > anti-pattern (or anti-process if that’s a thing) these days, and I’d hope > Apple would find a way to avoid this problem. :) > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 at 21:44 Jacob Williams <ponybo...@gmail.com > <mailto:ponybo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > A Swift developer has actually started a blog series about the swift > compiler. The links to his post were posted in one of the evolution topics a > little while ago. The series is incomplete, but it gives a lot of > explanations about the various parts of the swift compiler. > > https://medium.com/@slavapestov/the-secret-life-of-types-in-swift-ff83c3c000a5 > > <https://medium.com/@slavapestov/the-secret-life-of-types-in-swift-ff83c3c000a5> > https://medium.com/@slavapestov/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-sil-type-use-6b45f7595f43 > > <https://medium.com/@slavapestov/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-sil-type-use-6b45f7595f43> > > I wholeheartedly agree that a mentorship program would be extremely useful > for helping others get up-to-speed with the swift compiler. I myself wished I > understood it better. The only problem is that with something so large and > complex, it would take a lot of time and effort to document and create a > tutorial for it. I wish that this would happen, but I don’t know that anyone > at Apple has the time and there probably aren’t very many people outside of > apple with the know-how and time to write a tutorial as a hobby. I hope that > I’m wrong though. > > > >> On Aug 14, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Jay Abbott via swift-evolution >> <swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org>> wrote: >> > >> I think we should have some kind of mentorship program for the swift source. >> I'm confident that my following statement doesn't apply to just me: >> >> "I'd love to get involved in the source a lot more, and my previous efforts >> to browse around and understand it a bit better have been thwarted by lack >> of time, a specific goal/direction, and no proper commitment (all my own >> failings of course). I'd be happy to learn the code and implement proposals, >> but I really want someone to turn to when I need some help and guidance." >> >> In addition to the core team, I think there are a few others who know the >> code well enough, and who may be willing to mentor and share that knowledge >> further. Having a specific mentor makes it much easier to get to a level >> where you feel comfortable talking to the wider development community on >> swift-dev for example. >> >> There would need to be some level of self-starting bar, which would need to >> be supported by some documentation to read, and some simple tasks/tutorials >> to complete (For example create a branch which removes an existing feature >> and a tutorial to re-implement it, that touches a few key areas of the >> code-base). The swift project and the evolution process would benefit by >> having more potential implementors, so writing such documentation and >> getting-started guides should be a high priority in order to help people get >> more involved. Once complete, it would be great to choose a proposal, find a >> mentor, and start work on it under their guidance. >> >> I believe effort focused in this area will have a high return, given the >> high quality and quantity of passion and talent I see in this list. > >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> swift-evolution@swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution> > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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